Watch.



W. HAINES.

WATCH.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 25, 1911.

1,022,078. P- Patented Apr;2,1912.

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WILLIAM HAINES, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ap1z`2, 1912.

Application rfiled August 25, 1911. Serial No. 646,023.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM I-IAINns, a citizen of the United States,residingin the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in IVatches, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in a watch or clock which isprovidedwith a device for indicating the condition that the watch orclock is wound or run down such as is shown in the Letters Patent No.248,310, granted to William Haines and Lewis Breitinger, on the 18th dayof October, 1881, the invention therein contained being applied to akey-wound watch.

The present invention consists of means for operating an indicator ofthe character in a stem-winding watch, the means emloyed beinghereinafter described and the novelty thereof pointed out in the claim.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in theaccompanying drawings one form thereof which is at present preferred byme, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory andreliable results, although it is to be understood that the variousinstrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variouslyarranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to theprecise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalit-ies asherein shown and described. y

Figure 1 represents a face view of a watch embodying an invention. Fig.2 represents a view of the watch, the dial having been removedtherefrom. Fig. 3 represents a view of a portion opposite to Fig. 2.Fig. 4 represents an elevation of a detached portion of the mechanism ofthe watch. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section on line wam Fig. 2.Fig. 6 represents a section of a portion on line y-y Fig. 2. Fig. 7represents a section of a portion on line z-z Fig. 2. Fig. S representsa perspective view of portion of a detached member. Fig. 9 representsface view of two members of the watch mechanism to be hereinafterreferred to. Fig. 10 represents a side elevation of a detached member.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the casing of a watch of usualconstruction.

B designates the dial the same having thereon the additional dial C overwhich is the index finger D, to be hereinafter referred to, said dial Chaving graduations or characters adapted to indicate the condition ofthe watch whether entirely or partly wound or run down.

E designates the pinion of the stem-winding device of the watch the samebeing adapted to operate the wheels E. F. on the vibrating arm Gr usualin stein-winding watches.

II designates a spur wheel which is adapted to mesh wit-h the wheel Fand with the wheel J this latter being attached to the arbor K whichcarries the wheel L. Referring to Figs. 3 and 7, it will be noticed thatthe wheels J. L. are o-n opposite ends of said arbor K and the latterpasses through the pillow plate K and the adjacent plate K2 of the frameof the watch, the wheel J being on the plate K and the wheel L on theplate K2. The wheel L through the intermediate train of the mechanism,is geared over to the pinion M on the barrel arbor N, said pinion Mmeshing with the wheel P on whose post Q is the wheel It, the lattermeshing with wheel S with which meshes the wheel T, these wheels R, S, Tbeing mounted on the rocking lever or bar U on one end of which is thecrook V which is fittedl freely on the conical neck V of the adjacentwheel of the train usual in such cases. One end of said lever hasbearing against it the spring V2 for restoring said lever to its normalposition and retaining it thereat, said spring being held in position bythe keeper V3. The wheel T meshes with the pinion 'W which byintermediate mechanism serves to operate the indicator hand or indexfinger D hereinbefore referred to, the same being fitted on the sleeveof the wheel R. In the train are the wheel X and ratchet Y shown inFigs. 8, 5, and 9. On said wheel is the pin or stud Z, which is adaptedto enter the elongated slot Z in said ratchet. These features togetherwith the rocking lever U and connected. mechanism are well known forpreventing back action on said ratchet in unwinding as well known.

It will be seen that when the stem is rotated motion is communicated tothe wheels E, F, I-I, J and consequently to the other members of thetrain and to the pinion M, whereby the spring is Wound, the lever Uoscillating and so being disengaged from iio and engaged with the pinionW as usual in such eases. lVith the Winding of the spring the Wheel R isrotated and the index finger D is carried around With the same thusindioating on the dial C the :tact that the Watch has been Wound-up. Asthe spring unWinds and the Watch runs down, the pinion W communicatesmotion to the Wheels T, S, R, the Wheel R now rotating in reverse orderto its previous rotation, whereby the indeX finger D is carried aroundWith the same on the dial C in the direction indicating the fact thatthe Watch is running down and may have run down to full extent or at anyintermediate time.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In a Watch, an arbor, adjacent plates of the Watch frame, said arborbeing adapted to pass through said plates, Wheels on the ends of saidarbor, and located respectively on said plates, one of said Wheels beingadapted to operate an adjacent member of the Winding train, stem Windingmechanism including a spur Wheel Which latter is adapted to gear Withand rotate the other Wheel on said arbor, and indicating mechanism ofthe wound or univound condition of the Watch, the same being adapted tobe operated by said train.

C. D. MCVAY.

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